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Sears Holdings, the company formed via the merger of Sears, Roebuck and Co. and the Kmart Corporation, has named Kristin M. Coleman as its new senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary.

In many ways, the switch from a private civil litigation practice to in-house counsel at a family-owned and family-run company may even be a more drastic change than from a law firm to a large corporation.